Groundwater vs. Surface Water in Pumpkin Creek Case

(07-03-03) There's an old saying, whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. That saying is coming true in the Nebraska Panhandle, where a Morrill County ranch family that relies of surface water for irrigation from a nearby creek is challenging upstream groundwater irrigators over water rights. As part of our series Nebraska Connects: Troubled Waters, Jason Frederick prepared this report.

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